Hotel Antica Locanda Sturion in Venice, Rialto bridge – OFFICIAL SITE

Hotel Antica Locanda Sturion in Venice, Rialto bridge – OFFICIAL SITE

The Sensa Festival June 1st 2014 Venice italy

“The Sensa (Ascension Day) Festival was celebrated by the Venetian Republic on the day of Christ’s Ascension. Sensa is the Venetian dialect word for ascension. It commemorates two important events in the life of the Republic: one on 9 May in the year 1000, when Doge Pietro Orseolo II came to the rescue of the inhabitants of Dalmatia, who were under the Slav menace. The second event took place in 1177, when, in the reign of Doge Sebastiano Ziani, Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa signed the peace treaty in Venice that put an end to the century-long diatribe between the Papacy and the Empire. The rite of the Wedding with the Sea used to take place on the occasion of the Ascension Day Festival.” From: http://en.turismovenezia.it/Venezia/Festa-della-Sensa.